PERSONAL

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVII, Issue 106, 28 September 1914, Page 4

PERSONAL

lln Ottawa cablegram aw ounotg lh« death of "Mr. Whitney, it of 0n» tario. The I l '. A. Crasvi-liitw lia* lieeri wnfimed to hi# rooms dn.riij,- <„m passi ism day* through ilimbs, .bat he exi (Iwotfi to be able to get abcnit xu p day 01 two. The deutJh is anouiwed <ii •.r llorac* Batair, a resident, of .Vawur snd district for wary forty yearn. ATli• iad 'been ailing J.-om pjiouimonin •nd pleurisy, too ka U;ru ior ihe worst on Wednesday, and dk-j ivirly o* lttuuday morning. laitmatioa hag been received that Ik. Lionel Greene I rev i., <•«! L'iyt son ol o*jpttam Greenatreet, oi Übe New Zealand Bhippinig Company's &.B. Jtemuera, Sia beta appointed to flic position ol *hief officer of the »iiiip Endurance, wkith h taking Sir E. Shuuklotoa's cxftditita to the Antarctic. Sk m itated by tho Nelson Hail thai Major A. E. Glasgow, of the Imperial Army, » a Brigade Major in the Second Indian Contingent-, nailed for tlha frail aWut August 20. He is au old boy of Nelson College. Anotler too. War, Major W. J. Glasgow, who refeit'uy retired from tfhe Imperial Army, Kaa Toluateered for aowvo stTvioe, and has l»8an accepted, but it is not known locally what position he now koM». Major W. J. Glasgow was tih« ftrei Sekon Collegian to sain a commission in the Imperial Army. Since his tiinfi, ■magr Nelson Collegians have- entered <k# ULrmy straight from tihe College, and quite a number now hold tomjcissioM. i

xegret was ;t s in legal sod eritHcet circles in Ohriatchuxck when it became known thai Mr. Reginald Vincent had died suddenly at fl* •arly hour on Friday morning, Mr. Vincent, -nlbo was thirty-iight yeai's ol «gej wu» -widely known ia nown, served bis articles with Mr. T. VV. Stringer |h» fcii Honor Mr.. Justice Stringer), ,«iul admitted to the Bw i 1900. He waa a Bachelor ol Im~a of Canterlury College, IVi.-r • ■•n-li-rinaf Air. Stringer's office Mr. Vi&ceml wm ftjsih «iate ie> Air. Juet;te -Win... .afar -bel*g admitted to the lt«j .Mr. Vincent weat i»to partnership with Mr. Harvey, tad on that partnership k-hig dbadved he 1 - k over the legal business of Mr. E«ury Widdcwson •when Mr. Widdowsoa vr»< made a stipendiary magistrate. Binjco then Mr. Vincuii had beth in Jmsinesi on his own account.

Mre. Jlennpton, widow of the lata Catain Henitpton, a very old ratidttk »f New Plymouth, died on Saturday morning. Born im tho yw 1824 ail BuiK'.raa, by the share of Loclh Swilly, County Donegal, she, with ber husband, arrived at Wellington in December, 1854, by the ship Puddgy Dawson, and reaebed. Now Plymouth a fortnight later in tfce Matilda (Captain Switn), having been attracted io these riiorea by the reading of Chai'lto Ilurgthonse's book entitled "Acconint of the Settlement of New Plymouth, in New Eealiind, during a five years' re*ideoS« f 1849." In common with others, Mrs. Ilempton 'bore her sluvre of trial during tk* native troubles, and w«a amongst the numlber sent to Nc.'aon as refugees ia 1800. Of a generous, kindly aatwa and ready wit, she will be mi seed l»r?e eireV of frini-rle. Three son# pre. #ecease<l her, and elie leaven tnrea daughters (Annie, Alice, and Mrs. Newman), one aon (Arthur), and Ave fro®£ahildrcn to mourn their 'o>«.